It's rather splendid to think of all those great men and women who appear to have presented symptoms that allow us to describe them as bipolar. Whether it's Hemingway, Van Gogh... Robert Schumann has been mentioned... Virginia Woolf, Sylvia Plath... some of them with rather grim ends.
タグ: think, men, great, women

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It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.
タグ: social-anxiety, shame, self-loathing, self-image, self-consciousness, philosophy, literature, laughter, language, isolation, insecurity, depression, books, body-image
If you know someone who’s depressed, please resolve never to ask them why. Depression isn’t a straightforward response to a bad situation; depression just is, like the weather. Try to understand the blackness, lethargy, hopelessness, and loneliness they’re going through. Be there for them when they come through the other side. It’s hard to be a friend to someone who’s depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.
タグ: self-help, life, friendship, depression, advice
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.
タグ: language, i-am, freedom, truth
It was extremely important to show that Wilde's sexuality was not just some intellectual idea. It was real, and it was about the human body. To just have mentioned it and not shown it would have been, I think, peculiar and wrong.
タグ: real, important, body, think
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
タグ: down, you, work, love
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